Word: mistressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...date, Gilles is a sexy, glamorous journalist who is irretrievably light-fingered with other people's emotions and their trust. At 35, Gilles suddenly falls victim to a disease he had thought only struck his friends: a paralyzing "fear of life." An enviable job and a beautiful mistress seem like heavy burdens; each day is a "grim calvary." Desperate, he decides to spend some time with his sister in Limoges. Neither he nor the reader is much surprised to find that the most fascinating figure in local society, Nathalie Silvener, falls deeply in love with him. Her tenderness...
...genre, the breakthrough book was Victoria Holt's Mistress of Mellyn (1960), which sold a million copies. Though it was in itself a touchingly direct tribute to Rebecca, Mellyn has become the model for many of the new romances. The plot concerns Martha Leigh, a young gentlewoman in reduced circumstances, who comes to a vast mansion in Cornwall to care for the motherless daughter of enigmatic Connan Tre-Mellyn. Even before Martha falls reluctantly in love with Connan, she learns that his wife's death was both scandalous and mysterious, that he is surrounded by neighbors with ambiguous...
...thin and sketchy are the characterizations that one or two stereotypical words serve to define and exhaust the nature of the people involved. First comes the dutiful wife (Jessica Tandy) with her 50-year badge of marital honor. Then there is the earthy, pleasure-giving mistress (Colleen Dewhurst), the sympathetic lawyer friend (George Voskovec), a hostile daughter (Madeleine Sherwood) and a remorse-laden son (lames Ray). Finally, there is a flip nurse (Betty Field) and the trusted family physician (Neil Fitzgerald), who has been something like a brother to the dying man. As the characters talk, a mounting pile...
...wheelchair, prey to guilt-ridden hallucinations, his estate and manufacturing company fall into hopeless disarray. Decisions are left unmade, allowances stop, family discipline falls apart and, worse, a Swiss bank account number is lost. The process of the film becomes an attempt on the part of his family, mistress, and attendants, to shock Antonio back into health by acting out various psychological traumas of his past (a punishment in which he is locked in his room with a pig, a confirmation service disrupted by revolutionaries, a platitude-laden speech before dissatisfied workers). Treated as a child. Antonio responds...
...When a son is brought into the business," Levinson told TIME, "the father has all the problems of a man who introduced his rival to his mistress." If the son marries, adds Levinson, complications multiply: the wife wants him home, the father wants him to work late; the wife wants an immediate financial return, the father thinks that his son should work for peanuts because eventually the business will...